Our opinion: The President campaigns for his economic agenda at UAlbany. These measures are worthy of approval now. We can wait until November to assess blame for an economy in need of further recovery. The economy was not vastly better as President Obama returned to the Capital Region on Tuesday for the third time in less […]
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“All children deserve an arts education” and cutting music programs is detrimental to academic achievement, says Marcia Wood in The Star Ledger. Music instruction “improves reading, encourages focus and discipline, and fosters teamwork,” she says.
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Rep. Paul Tonko writes about the region’s challenges and what he’d like to say to the president, with whom he’s traveling about Air Force One today. Nothing is more humbling than earning the trust of the constituents of the 21st Congressional District of New York to represent our region in the halls of Congress. But […]
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Our opinion: A new effort in Albany to take a more holistic approach to educating children does indeed sound promising. We’ve been saying for some time now that schools can only do so much to educate children. Children must come to school ready, willing and able to learn — and that starts at home and […]
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We’re having some sort of technical problem with the blog that causes items not to post when they’re supposed to. Our web folks are looking into it. Meanwhile, we’re back up to date, although if you see that an item says it posted this morning and it really didn’t, rest assured you didn’t imagine that. […]
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Our opinion: A natural gas drilling experience in Alaska is a lesson in transparency, one worth importing to New York. We’re years away from knowing whether an experimental process of harvesting Alaska’s apparently vast riches of a certain form of natural gas is practical and safe. But the way this research is being explained and […]
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